Woodward vs Scotland

Vivian Woodward played 23 'full' internationals for England, scoring 28 goals.
This match, played on April 4th, 1903 was his third. Woodward put England ahead in the 10th minute, scoring from close range following a corner.
Scotland won thanks to second half goals from Finlay Speedie and Bobby Walker scored within the space of 2 minutes.

Meiklejohn, Muirhead & Mothers

Dundee People's Journal 12.07.30

Davie Meiklejohn played 563 games for Rangers and won no fewer than 12 Scottish League titles. He won 15 international caps for Scotland. 

Tommy Muirhead represented Scotland 8 times. He played 353 first team games for Rangers, winning 8 League titles. He also played for Hibernian and Boston Wonder workers.

Meiklejohn was 29 when the picture was taken, Muirhead 33. 

Scotland v England 1884

Played at Cathkin Park 15.03.84.
This was the inaugural season of the British Home Championship and the Scotland England clash was always likely to be the decider. This was the 13th meeting between the 2 sides. Scotland had won 8 of the previous 12 matches and England had not beaten them since 1879.
For the first time in international football admission was by ticket only.
Dr John Smith scored the only goal of the game in the 8th minute to give Scotland a 1-0 victory.
The illustration shows 'A Bailey' but it is in fact Norman Coles Bailey, while E.C Bambridge Swift is E.C Bambridge of the club The Swifts. Francis Marindin , here acting as Umpire for England was so well known as to be recognizable only by the title The Major.
The contrast in stature between the illustrated English and Scotch (sic) players is worthy of note. The era of the gentleman amateur was drawing to a close, but the England approach was still largely based on the muscular public schools approach whereas Scottish football was more tactically refined.

The final table:

	P	W	D	L	F	A
Scotland	3	3	0	0	10	1
England	3	2	0	1	12	2
Wales	3	1	0	2	7	8
Ireland	3	0	0	3	1	19

England v Scotland 1899

England v Scotland, Villa Park, 08.04.1899

The England XI for this match was made up of 10 professionals and 1 amateur. These men illustrate the social gulfs that were bridged by the game in Victorian Britain.

Player 'a' is Raby Howell, of Liverpool. Howell was a Sheffield born Roma.
Player 'b' is Gilbert Oswald Smith. Smith was a Charterhouse pupil and went on to Oxford University. After graduating he played for Corinthians and Old Carthusians. He won 20 caps and scored 11 international goals in the period 1894 to 1901. 
This was the deciding match in the British Home Championships. 
In their games against Wales and Ireland Scotland had scored 15 goals and England 17! 
England ran out winners at Aston lower Grounds. G.O Smith's 20 yard lob went in off the post after 25 minutes and Settle had an easy finish after a good cross from Athersmith 5 minutes before the break. 
Hamilton pulled one back in the 52nd minute after a scrimmage had floored Jack Robinson.

GK	Jack Robinson	Southampton
FB	Harry Thickitt	Sheffield United
	Jimmy Crabtree	Aston Villa
HB	Frank Forman	Nottingham Forest
	Raby Howell	Liverpool
	Ernest Needham	Sheffield United
F	Charlie Athersmith	Aston Villa
	Steve Bloomer	Derby County
	G.O Smith	Old Carthusians
	Jimmy Settle	Bury
	Fred Forman	Nottingham Forest

GK	Ned Doig	Sunderland
FB	Nicol Smith	Glasgow Rangers
	Davie Storrier	Celtic
HB	Neil Gibson	Glasgow Rangers
	Alexander Christie	Queen’s Park
	John Robertson	Southampton
F	John Campbell	Celtic
	Robert Hamilton	Glasgow Rangers
	Robert McColl	Queen’s Park
	Hugh Morgan	Liverpool
	Jack Bell	Celtic

Scotch Team

The 9th Scotland v England match was the 3rd in a row to produce 9 goals.  On this occasion Scotland ran out winners by 5-4. The goals came from Kerr (3), Baird, and Kaye.
The term 'Scotch' was in common usage on both sides of the Tweed in the 19th century, and had not acquired the pejorative tone that it carries today. The English and Scottish press would refer to Scotch teams (and of course Scotch Professors). The Monday following this match the Glasgow Herald referred to the Victory of the Scotch Team.
The great (English) historian A. J. P. Taylor was using the word Scotch in the 1960s:
Some inhabitants of Scotland now call themselves Scots and their affairs Scottish. They are entitled to do so. The English word for both is Scotch, just as we call les français the French and Deutschland Germany. Being English, I use it.

Ned Doig

Ned Doig joined Blackburn from Arbroath in 1889. His only appearance for Rovers was a 9-1 win over Notts County. 
Doig made his debut for Sunderland in September 1890 and went on to make 454 first team competitive appearances for Sunderland, winning 4 First Division Championships.
He joined Liverpool (in Division 2) in 1904 and made 53 appearances for the Reds spread over 4 seasons. 
Ned Doig represented Scotland 5 times over a 16 year period, finishing on the winning side 4 times. 
Doig was originally an outfield player who took to goalkeeping with Arbroath Reserves as a 17 year old. Concious of his hair loss, Doig was never seen without his cap, which he would fasten under his chin with a piece of string. 
On Easter Saturday 1900 Doig was involved in a curious incident-  Manchester City goalkeeper Charlie Williams appeared to become the first goalkeeper to score from open play in the Football League, his long clearance eluding Doig. Some contemporary reports (there was no dubious goals panel!) say that Doig made the decisive touch, and credit him with an own goal. ENFA credits City inside left Fred Williams with the goal. Sunderland won 3-1.

 Manchester Courier and Lancashire General 16.04.00

John Smith

In 1885 Dr John Smith was banned from playing for or against any Scottish club or the Scottish national team because he had played for Corinthians against professionals. In his outings for Corinth he usually employed the pseudonym J. Miller.
Up until this point Dr Smith had scored 10 goals in 10 internationals for Scotland and had won the Scottish Cup with Queen's Park. He had also played for Queen's Park in an 'English' FA Cup Final. 
Following the ban he confined his activities to occasional matches with Corinthians.
He also toured the Antipodes with the 1888 British Rugby Union team.

Cheap Excursion

10,000 people were at the Oval on 13.04.89 to see Scotland beat England by 3-2.  Receipts taken totaled £63 17s. 6d.

The prices shown are in shillings. There were 20 shillings to a pound
Skilled workers were on about £2 2/  (42 shillings) for a 50 hour week.
The Scottish players were nominally amateurs. The England line up included 6 professionals. These players were on about £3 per week during the season, £2 per week in the summer. Other than expenses (which amateurs also received) the FA did not pay the professionals for representing England.

The Victorian railway network played a great role in the rapid increase in the  popularity of football in the 1880s.  With the top clubs being concentrated in the North and the Midlands travel to away matches was relatively straightforward. 

Donald Gow

Sunderland full-back Donald Gow looks bemused at being photographed against a rather palustrine backdrop. The best years of Gow's career were divided between Glasgow Rangers and Sunderland. He won 2 League Championships with Sunderland. 

Glasgow Rangers 1885-91
Sunderland 1891–92
Glasgow Rangers 1892-93
Sunderland 1893–1897.
He captained  Scotland in a  5-0 defeat at the hands of  England in 1888, his only international.

The Edinburgh Cup

By my reckoning this competition (still played for today in the guise of the East of Scotland Shield) is the third oldest Association football cup tournament in the World. This despite the apparent slowness of the east of Scotland in taking to the game (Rugby was the favoured code).

Hibernian 1880

11.03.76	Third Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers	6	0	Thistle
	3ERV became St Bernard’s in 1878.
1876–77	Thistle	Walk over		Third Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers
	Revenge after a fashion for Thistle as 3ERV did not turn up.
20.04.78	Heart of Midlothian	3	2	Hibernian
	This match required 4 replays to produce a winner, and is credited with cementing the popularity of both clubs. 1 09.02.78 Heart of Midlothian 0 0 Hibernian 2 16.02.78 Heart of Midlothian 1 1 Hibernian 3 23.02.78 Heart of Midlothian 1 1 Hibernian 4 06.04.78 Heart of Midlothian 1 1 Hibernian 5 20.04.78 Heart of Midlothian 3 2 Hibernian
29.03.79	Hibernian	2	0	Heart of Midlothian
	Another replay, following a 1-1 draw (01.03.79) . 4,000 watched the first match, whereas the average attendance for the 5 matches the previous season had been 1200.
20.03.80	Hibernian	5	0	Dunfermline
	Another replay, albeit in different circumstances. Hibernian won the original match (06.03.80) by 6 goals to 3. Dunfermline protested that crowd encroachment had affected the game so a rematch was ordered. Dunfermline were not connected with the present day Dunfermline Athletic
02.04.81	Hibernian	1	0	St Bernard’s
	Hibernian were awarded the trophy in perpetuity having won it 3 times in succession.

Jimmy McGrory

Jimmy McGrory was Celtic's leading scorer for 12 seasons. 
McGrory scored 56 hat-tricks in the Scottish League and Scottish Cup.
He scored a total of 550 goals in 547 appearances in all competitions for Celtic and Clydebank*.
In his career he only took 3 penalties, and failed to score with 2 of them!
It's remarkable that McGrory was only capped 7 times by Scotland.

	League		Cup		Other		International
	Games	Goals	Games	Goals	Games	Goals	Games	Goals
1922-23	3	1	1
1923-24*	30	13
1924-25	25	17	8	11	2	3
1925-26	37	36	6	6	6	6
1926-27	33	47	6	9	2	2
1927-28	36	48	6	6	3	9	1
1928-29	21	21	6	10	4	3
1929-30	26	32	3	4	3	2
1930-31	29	36	6	8	2	1	1	1
1931-32	23	28			3	2	2	2
1932-33	25	22	8	8	3	2	2	3
1933-34	26	17	3	1	1	1	1
1934-35	27	18	4	2	1
1935-36	32	50	1		1
1936-37	25	18	8	9
1937-38	10	5			1	1

*1923-24 season on loan at Clydebank